This may come as a surprise to some, but education, instruction, and learning aren’t synonyms of each other. Those concepts have quite a bit of…
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Author: Michael Hawkes
Michael Hawkes is a professional computer technician who writes open source PHP code as a hobby, and spends the rest of his spare time playing with his cats, working in the garden, and working on a master's degree in education. He is the sole-proprietor of 10th Street Media, LLC.
Are you hungry? Here’s a bowl of candy. Help yourself. Oh, I should probably warn you about them first. I’m not sure how it happened,…
In taking classes about education, I suppose it’s inevitable that I’ll read something that describes the classes I’ve been taking. Sort of a meta-education. Thus…
This week’s readings dealt with two different concepts of learning that arrived on the scene some time after behaviorism. These are cognitive theory and constructivism.…
Since starting work on my master’s degree, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about Second Life, the online virtual world that once seemed to…
Over the past several decades, from the post-World War 2 era until now, three major theories or concepts have been applied to education. This week…
As the title says, this week’s readings covered the instructional development process, but I’m not sure if the phrase fully captures what was written. “Designing…
I had hoped to write this third R511 blog this past weekend, but life intervened. The heat went out in my house on Saturday, so…
It’s time for the second blog of the semester for EDUC-R511, and I guess I’m still getting into the swing of things. Last semester, when…
When I saw that the journal article we’d been assigned to read, My Pedagogic Creed by John Dewey, was published in 1897, I knew it…